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Absolutely Brilliant!

A Masterpiece!

Blistering performances.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This movie stunk. Scenes that go on and on without any life to it. The first ten minutes shows a couple making love, covered in paint on an art canvas. There is a man walking on an empty street and it goes on and on. Two lost soldiers are driving around for fifteen minutes trying to find their unit. Boring and dull. As for the biggest invasion in Israeli history, no one seems organized or even worried for that matter. The soldiers are not wearing combat helmets in a war zone and come across as dumb and dumber. As for the conversations, they are dull and listless, void of any emotion. Honestly, I found this whole movie unrealistic and totally boring. There isn't any type of character development and the viewer has no connection to any of the characters in the movie. I was hoping for a great film, but all I got was a snore bore. I give it a three only because of some effort from the main two characters. Don't waste your time on this junk.

While it's easy to set expectations and think that this could be a Saving Private Ryan / Black Hawk Down type of film (since the synopsis does reveal a chopper going down), this is after all an Amos Gitai film, and I feel this is more Apocalypse Now with The Thin Red Line sensibilities, though with none of Terence Mallick's visual poetry.Based on Gitai's own experience of joining a helicopter rescue crew during the war of Kippur in 1967, he creates the character of Sergeant Weinraub (Liron Levo, also seen in Disengagement) and it's through his eyes that the story unfolds. The film is curiously bookend by some graphic, artistic (literally, since it involves an incredibly huge canvas and lots of paint) sex, where Weinraub pounds his girlfriend in an extended scene in the beginning, before the outbreak of war with the attack by Egypt and Syria interrupting his moment of passion, and he picks up friend and officer Lt Ruso (Tomer Russo) as they drive back to camp to join their unit.Along the way they meet a number of characters who flit into and out of the story, and soon find themselves in a camp that they could get to, and volunteering to join a makeshift, hastily assembled helicopter unit to fly to the warzone in order to pick up wounded survivors, kind of like a flying ambulance tasked for rescue missions. We learn a thing or two about emergency evacuations, as well as the policy of not transporting the dead in time-critical missions as these, taking only survivors and sticking to their mission objectives.If one does not know that Gitai is at the helm of the film, one could expect an out-and-out war movie, since the scenario painted provides plenty of avenue for such. There are flights into the frontline, and in carrying out their mission, Getai litters the screen with plenty of dismembered bodies up close enough to churn your stomach. There are moments where some action is called for, but these are few and far between since our soldiers are unarmed. For those with Gitai sensibilities, then you'll probably note his preference for long takes, and there was one incredibly long sequence involving a traffic jam and narrow roads, when Weinraub and Ruso are rushing back en route to their camp. Otherwise, most of the shots during war involve tight helicopter interiors, or helicopter overhead views, but through narrow windows, capturing scores of tanks in vast, muddy landscapes ravaged by tracks that had gone past, that you can imagine the scale of the invasion with.Unlike other war films that preach the negative aspects of war, this felt more of a documentary of sorts, since after all it's based upon the director's own experience. Scenes are delivered as a matter-of-fact, sometimes devoid of emotion too as the soldiers go about doing the business, and the plenty of landscape shots are just that and could easily have been representative of news reels back then. Not your conventional war movie, and definitely worthwhile only when the troops hit the ground, and not flying high and far away from the action.

I disagree with most of the comments of the other commentors. This film is not a "History of Yom Kippur War" It is a very realistic attempt to see the war through a personal eyes of a Reserve Soldier suddenly called up and "Thrown" in to a War. It is 30 years since that war which is contraversial in Israel because we were caught by surprise by Egypt and Syria. On the other side within less than a month the Israeli army was 30 KM from Damascus and 100 KM from Cairo. I know people killed in that war and like other Israelis think "Kippur" shows the Trauma of that War, And any War. I have visited Egypt a number of times and Hope that, as Saadat said "The October War should be the Last War...". This is my "Apocalypse Now" movie but much more realistic.

I did not like this movie very much. Maybe because I was so disappointed. I really looked forward to se a film from a great Israeli director, and a movie about a conflict that I have never seen on film before. Sadly, this movie did not deliver any of the tension, horror and emotional intensity that great war movies do. It did not tell an interesting story and it lacked interesting characters and dialogues. It did have one interesting sex scene, with a lot of paint, though.One thing that struck me was, that despite this is a movie about a war, it only comprehended a few seconds of actual warfare. Most of the time there was endless dragging scenes that only contained waiting, silence or walking around on a muddy field. Actually, there was not much of a plot at all.This movie is said to be a realistic war movie. Well, I imagine it is realistic in a way, because i believe it's like this war looks like, for the average soldier, in an average war: most of the time nothing happens but waiting and waiting. And when things do happen, it's probably very bad and lasts for a very brief moment.If you want to see a slow but realistic and terrifying war movie, with more "psychological" than pyrotechnical action; go and see "Das Boot". "Das Boot" is a very intense and touching movie with great acting, and compared to this, "Kippur" is nothing.But despite the many bad things, this film has some interesting and unusual features. The opening sequence for instance. It´s very beautiful. The movie also gives us a sence of the confusion and anxiety that hit the Israeli people in the opening days of the war, as a result of a carefully planned and executed surprise attack. One other thing is, that it gives some brief examples of the Israeli tanks, like the British built Centurion, and tank tactics used in the Yom Kippur war. Actually, I get a feeling that the film is probably very accurate altogether, when it comes down to details. However, the film never gives away that in reality, the fighting that took place in the Golan area featured one of the largest and most furious tank battles ever. This movie is far from fierce or furious.Another interesting, but in some aspects unfortunate, feature, is that we are not allowed to see any Syrian soldiers or vehicles at all. In fact, the only enemies that are present, are the confusion, disorder, low moral and lack of information and command within parts of the Israeli army. And the occasional stray bullet (or missile)of course. This storyteller "trick" can be very effective, like in Das Boot (of course), "Blair witch ..." or "Alien", for instance. You never actually se the danger (or almost never), but you know it is there all the time. This can be very effective and thrilling, but unfortunately it's not the result in this movie.My advise to you is - don't waste time or money on this movie. If you want to see a great war movie; go and see Das Boot, Apocalypse now or The thin red line. And if you are only interested in Israeli tanks, you should probably watch Discovery instead.